[pptp-server] weird browsing problem

Nate Carlson natecars at real-time.com
Fri Oct 13 11:16:15 CDT 2000


On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Alan Chung wrote:
> I have stuck with browsing problem for a long time.  Today, when I tried 
> using another new PC for VPN client and connected to server, suddenly I 
> could see the internal machines and I was so happy about it.  But after I 
> reconnected it was back to nothing.  No matter how many times I tried to 
> take off network setup and reinstalled it on VPN client, it wouldn't work 
> any more.  I am still not able to see or browse any internal machine after 
> PPP connection.  Isn' it awkward?  What could be the problem?  I am out of 
> idea...
> 
> Does anyone have the same experience?

Have you gotten WINS installed properly and all that stuff? That's all
I've ever had to do to get browsing working. You do have to make sure
every machine on the network is registering itself to the WINS server, and
that the WINS server is being used in the dial-up connection, though.

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